How to render in AE for import in Avid Express Pro

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How to render in AE for import in Avid Express Pro

Posted by Coverbee on August 22, 2006 at 10:36 pm

Hi there
Here’s my question
I’m working on a mac G5 on a project in After Effects 6.5
When it’s done I have to make a file that contains an alpha Channel (if possible) which will open without problem in Avid Express pro( if possible)
By the way the Avid Express NLE is running on Windows XP.
I’ve read much about this subject but I’m still confused..there seem to be several options
What render cq Import settings are the best for this job. What codec should I choose.

Hope to hear from you
Thanks in advance

Cheers

Coverbee replied 19 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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Levon H
August 23, 2006 at 4:17 am

when i render out of AE7 into FCP 5, i use the losless with alpha preset, which is realy just the quicktime animation codec with millions of colours+ selected.

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Mylenium
August 23, 2006 at 5:27 am

Just like Levon said, use Quicktime with the according settings. Make sure you set your composition background color to black – XPress Pro does not like any other color and will cproduce Alpha fringes.

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Coverbee
August 23, 2006 at 8:43 am

Many thanks for your help
Coverbee
August 23, 2006 at 7:29 pm

Hi there
I’m still not sure what to do, please advice.

I made some textgraphic in Photoshop CS, sqare pixels and all.
Then I imported the layers into After Effect 6.5 as a comp.I animated it and added a few effects. nothing to hot I think just a lightsweep effect, some level adjustment, some fastblur etc.
All the composition I made in AE where square pixels.

I rendered my final comp using animation codec, millions of clors +, rgb plus straight alpha, field rendering even lowerfield first.

Just to check things I import the quicktime render into Avid Free DV. Importsettings : Maintain, square; RGB;
Invert existing alpha; Even (lowerfield first.

Somehow it looks a bit funny. wht little red dots wher is supposed to be transparency. It looks a bit like opening a QT with alpha in the quicktime player, since it is not capable of ‘showing’ an alpha channel.
I’m not sure at what stage things go wrong….
Is Avid Free DV capable of handeling an Alpha channel or not

I’ll be glad to hear from you again.
Best regards

btw. I’m working on an Apple G5. PAL format.

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